b. Japan 1972

Shio Kusaka adorns her ceramics with marks, grids, and stripes inscribed into the vessels themselves or delineated by color. Working primarily in white, brown, and gray, Kusaka forms the cylindrical and pear-shaped pots in occasionally counter- intuitive combinations of pattern and shape. Kusaka’s works are distinguished by a subtly imprecise handmade aesthetic imparted by impressions of the artist’s fingers and visible glaze drips. Kusaka has exhibited at a number of galleries and institutions around the world, including the Anton Kern Gallery in New York, NY; The Modern Institute in Glasgow, Scotland; and the Shame Campbell Gallery in Chicago, IL; among others. In addition, Kusaka was a featured artist at the 2014 Whitney Biennial.

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